Njorthrbiartr Quotes & Sayings

Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology. — James H. Cone

But even as she calls adult reality unreal, Alice, as the most reasonable creature in her unreasonable dreams, doesn't quite yet realize that the adult's sense of reality has already taken up residence in her. The principal dream of most children - the dream within the dream, as it were - is the dream of not dreaming any longer, the dream of growing up. For the adult, the outlook is reversed. The adult's quest is an inverted one: to find those desires again, in more reasonable forms - and this involves forgetting the original childhood desires (to become an adult) in order to remember them as an adult — Tan Lin

I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid. — Jonathan Winters

How people react is going to be based on how you react. — Ilsa J. Bick

Little children never know that they feel seasick, till they are. — Katharine Brush

Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible. — Roger Ebert

You can't just jump into debauchery one night and expect to get the hang of it by morning. It takes years. — Jennifer Crusie

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me. — Suzanne Collins

She always saw through him, as if he were just another window. She always felt that she knew everything about him that could be known. Not that he was simple, but that he was knowable, like a list of errands, like an encyclopedia. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The mind is a temple;
negative thoughts defile it.
The heart is a temple;
positive desires elevate it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

And was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman. — R. H. Tawney

By reaching for the stars, Jefferson gave us all the impulse. He — David McCullough

It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I've also studied deeply in the philosophies and the religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through. — Leonard Cohen

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize. — Isaac D'Israeli